Fates Essay Topics & Paper Examples

Irony, in its essence, is the humor of contradiction. It is contradiction, in the sense that where we would expect events to lean on one way, events instead completely take the opposite direction. A crude example would be where a string of freak accidents occur at a factory where the manager is showing off to his potential clients that his company is “accident-free”. Irony is humorous because if one saw it with impartiality, one would find it funny. Having a car accident right after a road is “improved” to avoid further accidents, would be funny. To study irony further, one could study an average person’s sense of humor. While as a child, he may delight in the curiosities of the…